Exyte engineers design and build the facilities where modern medicine takes shape. But what happens when a facility you helped design produces the very drug needed in your own life?
The answer to that is called a full circle moment.
Jason Jia is a process engineer in Northeast Asia with 25 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and his connection to life sciences is personal. He is diabetic.
Every week, a single, simple injection helps keep his blood sugar in check and lowers his cardiovascular risk. The medicine is semaglutide. Drugs like these are produced in facilities Exyte realizes for clients. In adults with diabetes, semaglutide improves glycemic control and helps reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke.
Jia has taken the medication for several years now with an unmistakable impact. “Since I started taking this medication, my life has truly improved,” he says. “It allows me to feel like a normal, healthy person again.” Convenience matters too. Weekly dosing replaces the old rhythm of multiple pills a day. “Medicine has changed a lot. Now it is only a weekly or sometimes even a monthly injection.”
Not long ago, Jia helped design a new facility, one dedicated to producing semaglutide in Northeast Asia. This space ensures high‑quality medicine reaches the people who need it. People like him. “It’s interesting that I joined a project designing a new facility to produce the same medicine I use. I joked that I was designing it for myself,” he laughs.
This is Exyte at its core. Engineers delivering the infrastructure that enables clients to engineer what’s next. And as the pharma industry evolves, so does Jia’s optimism: “New technology and research and development always brings good things. It improves medicines, vaccines, and the way we care for people.” A full circle moment indeed, another example of how the work Exyte does extends far beyond the design, realization, and handover of a project.
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